The unknowns are still in the head of all mixed martial arts fans (MMA) around the globe. They all ask the same question: will they face Ilia Topuria and Islam Makhachev This year? At the moment there is no official response. Everything seems that sooner or later their paths will end up crossing, but there is a unanimous thought: now it is The best moment. Even if it is unlikely to give the level of both, make them have fights prior to their shock entails the risk that someone loses, especially in a sport as unpredictable as MMA.
The Topuria team, as well as the UFC, fights to be as soon as possible, since it is what Everyone wants. It is on the part of the lightweight champion (155 pounds or 70.3 kilos), Islam Makhachev, which everything seems to be delayed. His team considers that the Hispanic-Georgian must prove his level in this new division to earn the contender post. Far from having a definitive answer, it is undeniable that this fight is closer than everand many fans as fighters of the American company already fantasize about how the fair could happen.
One of those who has gone to give his opinion has been the ex -champion of the pen weight Alexander Volkanovskiwhich was stripped of his throne by the killer. «Islam will be difficult to overcome. I think that the only possibility of losing is that someone knocked it out, and if someone can achieve it, that is Ilia. Ilia has some Very dangerous hands», Said the Australian in ‘Believe Me You Podcast’. This is not the first time that Volkanovski states that the Hispanic-Georgian has power to knock Makhachev.
And if something is clear, it is that The Great (Alexander Volkanovski’s nickname), knows both very well. He has lived in his own meats the skills, resistance and power of each of them. Even in Two occasions He beat with the Russian. The first was one of the best fighting of 2023, where the Australian proved to be at the level of the monarch of the 155 pounds. It was a strip and loosen that he left In favor of Makhachev For small details. Then he would have, in short warning, an opportunity to avenge his first defeat in the UFC. However, the result was the worse possible. A high kick in the first assault sentenced Volkanovski’s aspirations to get the second belt.
His next contest would be against Ilia Topuria, in which the result was similar. In the second assault he savored the power that the hands of the Hispanic-Georgian, ending with His glorious reign In the pen weight. For all this, if someone with authority to give a prediction that is Alexander Volkanovski. However, these are issues related to light weight. The Australian now has a new commitment in the sight: recover his belt. The Great will face Diego Lopes in the next UFC 314, for the dispute of the throne that Topuria left vacant.
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